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2023 biography by Jonathan Eig

King: A Life

Author	Jonathan Eig
Subject	Biography
Publisher	Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Publication date	May 16, 2023
Pages	688
ISBN	9780374279295

King: A Life is a 2023 biography ofMartin Luther King Jr. byJonathan Eig. It won the2024 Pulitzer Prize for Biography^[1] and was a finalist for the 2024National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography.^[2]

Universal Pictures optioned the biography. A biopic is set for production withAmblin Partners.Kristie Macosko Krieger is set to produce the film withSteven Spielberg as an executive producer.Chris Rock is in talks to direct and produce the biopic.^[3]

References

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^Grynbaum, Michael M. (May 6, 2024)."The New York Times and The Washington Post Win 3 Pulitzers Each".The New York Times.ISSN 0362-4331.
^Stewart, Sophia (January 25, 2024)."2024 National Book Critics Circle Awards Finalists Announced".Publishers Weekly. RetrievedMay 9, 2024.
^Rubin, Rebecca (October 5, 2023)."Chris Rock to Direct Martin Luther King Jr. Biopic, Steven Spielberg to Executive Produce".Variety. RetrievedMay 9, 2024.

Bibliography

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Altschuler, Glenn C. (May 12, 2023)."Review: 'King: A Life' takes a fresh, unvarnished look at a civil rights icon".Star Tribune. RetrievedMay 9, 2024.
DeGroot, Gerard (May 17, 2023)."King by Jonathan Eig review — Martin Luther King, a lying, cheating American hero".The Times.ISSN 0140-0460.
Garner, Dwight (May 8, 2023)."The New Definitive Biography of Martin Luther King Jr".The New York Times.ISSN 0362-4331.
Mack, Kenneth W. (May 27, 2023)."King: The Life of Martin Luther King by Jonathan Eig review – a story that speaks to our times".The Guardian.ISSN 0261-3077.
Mathews, Jessica T. (August 22, 2023)."King: A Life".Foreign Affairs. Vol. 102, no. 5.ISSN 0015-7120.
Power-Greene, Ousmane (May 18, 2023)."'King: A Life,' Jonathan Eig's deeply researched new MLK biography, reveals a man beset by insecurity and personal doubt but grounded in moral conviction".The Boston Globe. RetrievedMay 9, 2024.
Sanneh, Kelefa (May 8, 2023)."Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Perilous Power of Respectability".The New Yorker.ISSN 0028-792X.
Schlichenmeyer, Terri (May 23, 2023)."Book Review: Jonathan Eig shows MLK as the flawed, exhausted human in 'King: A Life'".The Philadelphia Tribune. RetrievedMay 9, 2024.

External links

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Official website

Martin Luther King Jr.

Speeches, writings, movements, and protests

Speeches	"Give Us the Ballot" (1957) "I Have a Dream" (1963) "How Long, Not Long" (1965) "Beyond Vietnam: A Time to Break Silence" (1967) "I've Been to the Mountaintop" (1968)
Writings	Stride Toward Freedom (1958) "What Is Man?" (1959) "Second Emancipation Proclamation" Strength to Love (1963) "Letter from Birmingham Jail" (1963) Why We Can't Wait (1964) Conscience for Change (1967) Where Do We Go from Here: Chaos or Community? (1967)
Movements and protests	Montgomery bus boycott (1955–1956) Prayer Pilgrimage for Freedom (1957) Albany Movement (1961–1962) Birmingham campaign (1963) March on Washington (1963) St. Augustine movement (1963–1964) Selma to Montgomery marches (1965) Chicago Freedom Movement (1966) Mississippi March Against Fear (1966) Anti-Vietnam War movement (1967) Memphis sanitation strike (1968) Poor People's Campaign (1968)
Organizations	Montgomery Improvement Association Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC)

People

Family

Other
leaders

Ralph Abernathy (mentor, colleague)
Ella Baker (colleague)
James Bevel (strategist / colleague)
Dorothy Cotton (colleague)
Jesse Jackson (protégé)
Bernard Lafayette (colleague)
James Lawson (colleague)
John Lewis (colleague)
Joseph Lowery (colleague)
Benjamin Mays (mentor)
Diane Nash (colleague)
James Orange (colleague)
Bayard Rustin (advisor)
Fred Shuttlesworth (colleague)
C. T. Vivian (colleague)
Wyatt Walker (colleague)
Hosea Williams (colleague)
Andrew Young (colleague)

Assassination
Lorraine Motel (now National Civil Rights Museum) Riots Funeral James Earl Ray Jack Kershaw U.S. House Select Committee on Assassinations (HSCA) Martin Luther King Jr. Records Collection Act Loyd Jowers Trial Conspiracy theories Executive Order 14176

Media

Film	King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis (1970 documentary) Our Friend, Martin (1999 animated) Boycott (2001 film) The Witness: From the Balcony of Room 306 (2008 documentary) Selma (2014 film) All the Way (2016 film) King in the Wilderness (2018 documentary) MLK/FBI (2020 documentary) Rustin (2023 film)
Television	King (1978 miniseries) "The First Store" (The Jeffersons, 1980) "Great X-Pectations" (A Different World, 1993) "The Promised Land" (New York Undercover, 1997) Selma, Lord, Selma (1999) "Return of the King" (The Boondocks, 2006) Alpha Man: The Brotherhood of MLK (2011 documentary) Genius (MLK/X, 2024)
Plays	The Meeting (1987) The Mountaintop (2009) I Dream (2010) All the Way (2012)
Books	Bearing the Cross (1986) America in the King Years (1988, 1998, 2006) King: A Life (2023)
Illustrated	Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story (1957 comic book)
Music	"Abraham, Martin and John" (Dion) "March! For Martin Luther King" (John Fahey) "Martin Luther King's Dream" (Strawbs) "Happy Birthday" (Stevie Wonder) "Pride (In the Name of Love)" (U2) "MLK" (U2) "King Holiday" (King Dream Chorus and Holiday Crew) "By the Time I Get to Arizona" (Public Enemy) "Shed a Little Light" (James Taylor) "Up to the Mountain" (Patti Griffin) "Never Alone Martin" (Jason Upton) "Symphony of Brotherhood" (Miri Ben-Ari) Joseph Schwantner: New Morning for the World; Nicolas Flagello: The Passion of Martin Luther King (1995 album) "A Dream" (Common featuringwill.i.am) "Glory" (Common andJohn Legend)
Related	Civil rights movement in popular culture Estate of Martin Luther King, Jr., Inc. v. CBS, Inc. King v. Trustees of Boston Univ.

Other topics

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Previously the Pulitzer Prize for Biography or Autobiography from 1917–2022
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